Cambrian House's story
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Brian T. Rice
May 13, 2008, 3:34:10 PM5/13/08
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Cambrian House was an attempt to crowdsource the forming of ideas for
websites or other software products. I think their own commentary on
what didn't work is interesting for us:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/12/when-crowdsourcing-fails-cambrian-house-headed-to-the-deadpool/
websites or other software products. I think their own commentary on
what didn't work is interesting for us:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/12/when-crowdsourcing-fails-cambrian-house-headed-to-the-deadpool/
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Eric Veal
May 13, 2008, 5:56:48 PM5/13/08
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Very interesting. Thanks, Brian, for finding and sharing. Some of my favorite (and/or most concerning) snipits:
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Kluster takes a more structured approach by breaking down projects into manageable stages and has thought through the incentives a little differently. [Eric's comment: 6HS could do a better job of breaking down the projects into clear deliverables. 6HS doesn't (yet?) have any incentive structure besides just having fun and learning.]
we became a destination people loved to bookmark more than they loved to actively visit (our traffic pattern was scarily VC-ish). The limiting reagent in the startup equation is not ideas, but amazing founding teams. [Eric's comment: I agree that the limiter in 6HS being successful is the ongoing care and feeding of the GOOD 6HS's that have gone through the process]
Trying to find people willing or capable to take on the offspring (our outputs) of the CH model was hard and/or incredibly time consuming. [Eric's comment: 6HS has the same problem and will exacerbate this problem the more 6HS's it does if it doesn't figure out how to keep eyeballs on the previous projects.]
Ericwe became a destination people loved to bookmark more than they loved to actively visit (our traffic pattern was scarily VC-ish). The limiting reagent in the startup equation is not ideas, but amazing founding teams. [Eric's comment: I agree that the limiter in 6HS being successful is the ongoing care and feeding of the GOOD 6HS's that have gone through the process]
Trying to find people willing or capable to take on the offspring (our outputs) of the CH model was hard and/or incredibly time consuming. [Eric's comment: 6HS has the same problem and will exacerbate this problem the more 6HS's it does if it doesn't figure out how to keep eyeballs on the previous projects.]
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Brian T. Rice
May 13, 2008, 6:07:23 PM5/13/08
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Yeah, those were the main points I got from it as well, but didn't want to introduce pre-interpretations just by mentioning it.
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